General questions

[GrimMonkey]

Hey all,

I'm in dire need of these questions answered. I have tried to solve them many times in several different ways, but to no avail. These refer to Single Player missions.

1). How do you script so that there is no briefing when you begin a mission, but you can still see the notepad and all objectives once you press the 'M' key?

2). I have a unit named Sol4 and a parachute named Chute4, Sol4 is in the parachute and has a 50-50 chance of not being there. How do you script so that if Sol4 is not there, the parachute is deleted?

To try to answer question #1 I opened up the official mission, 'Maverick', it didn't have a briefing in it but I have to have one.

Cheers.


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[macguba]

1.   Dunno.    What happens if you have no briefing.html file?   Whether the map is available or not depends on the setting in description.ext.    I think there is a similar setting for the notepad.   What you want might be impossible but you try playing with it, you never know.

2.   This one is easy.    In the condition field of the parachute write:-

alive sol4

[Dubieman]

I think Macguba's right on the first one, well probably the second one too. ;D

showNotepad =  1

make it

showNotepad =  0

And if you need a briefing for it to work, just put like two letters down and it won't matter cause the notepad won't show.

Yep, it should work, I just depboed the CWC campaign and you know the first mission after training? Flashpoint?
You attack Morton and all that, that mission had no briefing and I checked its .ext and it said
showNotepad =  0
so my guess is that it works.

[GrimMonkey]

Thanks for the help, #2 is good now. I had a nasty feeling it was something painfully simple.

But, for #1, just putting 'ShowNotepad = 0' won't make it skip past the briefing, it simply will just hide the Notepad, the briefing is still shows before the mission.

GuiltyRoachKillar, you're right, it does say that, but if you look, it also doesn't have a Briefing.html file. Same with Maverick.


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[macguba]

As a workaround, you can make the Plan and Notes text blank.   Once the mission starts, unhide the Objectives which have links to other pages.